Lost Highway

America the land of highways, where the car was king and the open road lay ahead. The American dream was seen along these endless highways, but as progress came it also lead to the downfall of this American tradition. Lost Highway documents the history of the road by exploring the abandoned neon signs along the highways of the Southwest United States. These huge signs used to pull traffic off the road and into their accommodations, but now reside as mementos of a bypassed time or as gravestones to their demolished buildings. Decaying in the desert sun, these signs are fading reminders of the near past of the famed American roadways.

In America the narrative of time is of progression, and in this need for progression we lose our past. These fading reminders of the great American highway are being destroyed every year giving way to the synonymous box stores that make up its cities. Nostalgia for the road helped create Lost Highway, but the need of preservation for this history drove this series. The history in this roadside architecture is of the bygone era, giving cadence to this era, Lost Highway seeks to bring importance back to these signs, so the past will not be forgotten by the future.

Shot with a Hasselblad500 c/m with Kodak Ektar 100iso